Please welcome Martin Leicht and Isla Neal today at the Blog for a special and cute Blog Tour of their upcoming Release of
Mothership
and.. even more exciting! Mothership comes out today and we kick off this super fun and exciting Tour! So watch out for more funny posts around in the Bloggysphere!
About Mothership
publication: July 10th 2012 by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers Coming out today!!!
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Pregnant. In space. Yeah, things are really looking up.
It’s 2074 and Elvie’s unplanned pregnancy (with Cole Archer, who bolted out of town half a millisecond after hearing the news, not that Elvie’s bitter about it or anything) forces her to leave her best bud back on Earth and spend her junior year aboard a corny old space cruiser with forty-five other hormonal teen girls (one of whom just happens to be her arch-nemesis). Getting shipped off to the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers was not how Elvie imagined spending her junior year, but she can go with the flow. That is, until a team of hot commandos hijacks the ship—and one of them turns out to be Cole.
Mothership is the first installment in a new trilogy from Martin Leicht and Isla Neal that has been described as Juno meets Pretty In Pink…but in space.
Martin and Isla share items they would include in a time capsule for Elvie to open in 2074.
Life will undoubtedly be very different for Elvie Nara in the year 2074. It’s fun to imagine all of the crazy technology and food and entertainment people will be exposed to sixty years from now. But sometimes it’s just as hilarious to look to the past and mock their conventions. So, in that vein, we were asked to think of some contemporary objects that we would put in a time capsule for Elvie to discover. She’d probably make fun of a lot of it—after all, these are things that would have been “cool” for her grandparents! Still, we think she’ll get a kick out of seeing what we were watching, wearing, eating, and more.
Elvie is a really big “flat-pic” fan (what we’d just call TV and movies). She loves a good story, good characters, and of course, some cheesy awesomeness. So we thought we’d better include some of our favorite shows from the past ten years or so for her to watch with her best bud, Ducky, while curled up with a big bowl of chocolate covered pickles (hey, pregnancy cravings are weird in any era!).
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
Long before Bella Swan was swooning over vampires, Buffy Summers was kicking them in the face and staking them through the heart. Despite its silly name, Buffy is a seriously kick-ass show with great action, snappy dialogue, campy good humor, and overwhelming heart. It even managed to work in a “musical” episode where everyone breaking into song actually makes sense! Seven seasons of Buffy and five seasons of the equally excellent spin-off Angel combined to form what became known as the “Buffy-verse.” It’s my hope that, somehow, when Elvie finds this in our time capsule, she’ll say: “Dur, like I don’t already have every single episode memorized??”
Community (2009 – present)
It would be more appropriate to call this show a meta-com, rather than a more traditional sitcom. While it has never had the widest audience, there is no other show currently on television that so deftly parodies and emulates popular culture at the same time. It’s laugh-out-loud hilarious, and incredibly smart. What is so impressive is that the show works whether you understand the references or not. Someone like Elvie will snort her pickle-shake through her nose when Troy and Abed do a pitch perfect Law & Order good cop/bad cop routine, whereas Ducky will no doubt be enthralled by the amazingly ridiculous—or is that ridiculously amazing?—paintball battle royale.
Other shows Elvie would get a kick out of:
Mad Men (2007 – Present); Gilmore Girls (2000 – 2007); Friday Night Lights (2006 – 2011); Lost (2004 – 2010); Extras (2005 – 2007)
This was a phenomenal Guest Post since it features all the awesomeness I love myself! Buffy?! Who doesn’t love Buffy!!!! and Friday Night Lights? All I’m saying to this is : Tim Riggins.. *swoons* Thanks to Martin and Isla for sharing this great post!!
Book Trailer
Seriously, you need to watch this super cute trailer!!
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Fun post! I have never watched Buffy or Friday Night Lights. I’ve always meant to. Do they dub the American TV shows in Germany or subtitle them?
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Oh you never watched Buffy??!?!?!?!?!?
And in Germany everything is dubbed and I have to say they are doing an amazing job! If you don’t look too closely you even don’t see the lips moving slightly different. But normally our languages are pretty similar so wer have a great industry taking care of awesomely dubbing:)
Which doesn’t mean I don’t prefer watching the original version, which I normally do whenever I can! But that’s just me trying to improve my english all the time 🙂
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I just saw this book on someone’s video and it sounds like so much fun !
Like Alison, I haven’t watched Buffy either. I think I need to fix that asap. 😛
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DUDE! What is THIS!? I haven’t seen this at all before it sounds so awesome!!! I’ve never watched Friday Night Lights, but Buffy was epic!! Thanks for the giveaway, dollface!!
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That is exactly what I thought when I got the invitation to join the Tour! I saw the cover, read the synopsis and needed to share this!!! Must.Watch.FridayNight Lights and meet Tom *hottness* Riggins!
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LOL oh my gosh!!! I seriously had a burst of giggles here because we actually had a whole discussion about what would happen if you were pregnant in Space in English class! x) Does that make me super-duper intrigued? Absolutely!! And I loooooove the Buffy-verse too! I haven’t seen all the episodes yet, but I’ve seen enough to know that Buffy rocks and so does Angel :’)
Thanks so much for putting this EPIC-sounding book on my radar, Danny! I’ll bet it’s AMAZING! 😉 <3
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YEAH Mimi! I knew you#d be an Angel Girl!!
And yes this books sounds epically awesome and now you must read it after just discussing this in Class! Lool!
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I’ve never watched Friday Night Lights…I keep wanting to catch it on Netflix.
I did LOVE Gilmore Girls too, it’s a show I can watch episodes over and over and still find myself giggling a bit. 😉
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YEAH BUFFY!!!! One of my very favorite shows of all time. How could you not love her?? And Angel. Let’s not forget Angel. I used to get so irritated when he was only in an episode for a few minutes:) Looking forward to the rest of the tour, thanks for the fun post Danny!
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JENNY! We never talked about Buffy but now I know that are truly my Soulmate! I’m also an Angel Girl – always and forever and I was slightly pissed that ge got his own show instead of ENDING UP WITH BUFFY!
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This book looks like such a fun read! I loved Buffy and Gilmore Girls! I agree with Martin and Isla that it’s fun to imagine the new technology of the future but also fun to mock the past! I can’t wait to read this book! Thanks for this amazing giveaway – I would love to win!
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Elvie sounds like a hoot–and she has very good taste in TV shows. Love the tongue-ing-cheek-ness of this book; sounds very cute and funny!
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I had never heard of this book, but it sounds really entertaining. I’ve added it to my tbr list! Anyone who loves Buffy is okay by me!
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I loved Buffy. This sounds like a fun read. Thank you for sharing it.
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I am so excited, this book looks too fun! Thanks for the interview and giveaway!
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Great giveaway, I’ve been wanting to read it.
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LOVE all the pop culture-ness of this post! I wouldn’t have really given this book a shot (I don’t really like reading about pregnant teens) but everyone has said this book is HILARIOUS. Great post!
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BUFFY!!! Total win. Though I would also probably include Sons of Anarchy in that time capsule. Gotta give Jax some love! But then again, that show really isn’t for young, impressionable minds… unless you want to corrupt them. LOL
Love the cover! Thanks for the fun post and giveaway!
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Love the trailer, and Elvie’s voice is just perfect. “Space is lame” *snicker*. This certainly has the potential to become a really popular trilogy. Please enter my name for the chance to win a copy. Thanks.
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Oh – Happy Publication Day! Where are my manners?!
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This books sounds so funny. This is the first I am hearing of it. .definitely would like to check it out. I agree about the tv shows some great picks in there especially Lost and Mad Men. Thanks for the giveaway!
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The trailer for this is hilarious! Something tells me that not only is the book going to be hilarious, but Cole will make me laugh endlessly XD
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How have I not heard of this book?! It sounds crazy weird and totally freaking awesome!
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IKR? I was also surprised and haven’t seen it around before, but it looks awesome!
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I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I would love to read this book. Lots of wonderful authors out there.
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This book sounds like so much fun! It looks fickin amazing! 😀
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Buffy is the reason Roswell was cancelled,or so they say. I loved both shows!
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